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skurry away

skurry away verb: dated spelling of scurry away.

Verb

skurry away (third-person singular simple present skurries away, present participle skurrying away, simple past and past participle skurried away)

  1. Dated spelling of scurry away.
    • The Rabbit started violently, dropped the white kid gloves and the fan, and skurried away into the darkness as hard as he could go.1865 November (indicated as 1866), Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “The Pool of Tears”, in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 18
    • As we burst on them out of the smoke of their own fire, yelling like a pack of wolves in sight of their prey, they broke and scattered as a flock of partridges skurries away at the shot of the hunter.1883 November 20, J. R., “On Gettysburg’s Field. The Struggle for Round-Top. The Awful Conflict for the Priceless Prize Which Was Won by the Union Troops.”, in Paul Philippoteaux, Cyclorama of the...

Forms of skurry away

third-person singular presentskurries away
present participleskurrying away
past participleskurried away
pastskurried away

Questions about skurry away

What does skurry away mean?
Skurry away means dated spelling of scurry away.
What part of speech is skurry away?
Skurry away is a verb.
What is the past tense of skurry away?
The past tense of skurry away is skurried away.

Words near skurry away in the dictionary

  1. skurried
  2. skurried away
  3. skurries
  4. skurries away
  5. skurry
  6. skurry away
  7. skurrying
  8. skurrying away
  9. SKUs
  10. Skuse
  11. Skuses

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